Renewable Energy
July 2024
Dan Revers, Managing Partner of ArcLight
ArcLight Infrastructure Partners (together with its affiliates, “ArcLight”) announced the launch of operating focused renewables investment initiative SkyVest Renewables (“SkyVest”) and concurrent acquisition of a 160 MW operating wind farm.
SkyVest, formed by ArcLight to operate and optimize acquired
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Date:
07/29/2024
Chung-Ang University Researchers Study Real-Time Electricity Pricing Model to Enhance Power Grid Balance
Consumer motivation to participate in residential demand response (DR) has historically been low due to inflexible electricity pricing mechanisms that do not account for individual use. A new predictive home energy management system (PHEMS) addresses this issue with a real-time pricing mechanism. This sy
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Date:
07/25/2024
Michael Phelan, CEO of GridBeyond
GridBeyond, an AI-powered smart energy company and global pioneer in intelligent energy management solutions, announced a strategic partnership with energy curtailment software provider OBM, Inc. (“OBM”).
This new collaboration is set to transform energy management for operations of all si
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Date:
07/23/2024
ABB Technology Automates Giant Solar Energy Farm in Abu Dhabi
The Al Dhafra PV2 Solar project in Abu Dhabi – for which ABB supplies automation and optimization power generation solutions – is now exporting 100 percent of its designed capacity onto the grid. Covering an area of 20 square km in the Al Dhafra region, located around 30 km south of Abu Dhabi City, the 2
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Date:
07/23/2024
The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier.
The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier.
The future sy
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Date:
07/22/2024
Jason Dymbort, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of First Solar
First Solar, Inc. announced its ownership of patents related to the manufacturing of Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (“TOPCon”) crystalline-silicon (“c-Si”) photovoltaic (“PV”) solar cells. First Solar secured the U.S. patent and related international counterparts through its acquisition of TetraSun, In
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Date:
07/19/2024
onsemi Accelerates Silicon Carbide Innovation to Power the Transition to Electrification
In the face of escalating climate crises and a dramatic rise in global energy demands, governments and industries are committing to ambitious climate goals aimed at mitigating environmental impact and securing a sustainable future. Key to these efforts is the transition to electrification to reduce carbon em
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Date:
07/19/2024
Lynn Mueller, President and CEO of SHARC Energy
SHARC International Systems Inc. is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated June 24, 2024, the Company has closed a non-brokered private placement of debenture units of the Company (“DebentureUnits”) at a price of $1,000 per Debenture Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $2
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Date:
07/09/2024
UT Leads $25M Nuclear Technology Consortium
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the lead institution for a $25 million cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to support research that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation mi
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Date:
07/02/2024
Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD
For the first time, investment in renewable energy is expected to be double that of investment in fossil fuels. That is according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which estimated that this year global investment in clean energy will reach $2 trillion. The report highlighted that hi
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Date:
07/01/2024
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Figure 1: onsemi’s end-to-end SiC production
For applications such as electric vehicles (EV) and solar panels, engineers face the challenges of sensitive electronic components having to provide continuous, reliable operation within harsh environments. To further the adoption of these sustainable solutions, we need innovation at the component level to he
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Date:
07/01/2024
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Figure 1: Solar power installation outline
PV installations vary in scale from an incidental power source in a domestic micro-grid generating a few hundred watts, to utility-scale, providing thousands of megawatts. In just about all cases, the DC from the solar panels needs conversion to standard AC line voltages to be compatible with existing loads or
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Date:
07/01/2024
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